-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Henri Shustak on 10/13/2009 6:34 PM: >>> Should there be an option for touching the link and leaving the >>> original file? >> Most likely yes, however, I don't know of any way to implement such an >> option in portable Posix code, on GNU/Linux, or on Solaris. FreeBSD >> can do it, though: its touch has a "-h" option that does what you >> want, and GNU touch could be modified to support -h on BSDish systems. > Just curious has any one actually implemented such a flag for BSDish > systems? If not, is there a technical reason why this flag should not be > added?
What great timing! Until last week, yes, there was a technical reason why we couldn't add 'touch -h' - there wasn't enough support for it. But now that my gnulib utimensat module is nearly complete, we FINALLY can support this on modern GNU/Linux machines, and the addition of touch -h is rapidly moving up to the top of my todo list. It will probably be included in time for coreutils 8.1. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrVHwYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCCVACfdA/SoQ1IHwlOC4ya9jYPMamL 9ckAn0A4uus95WPq047l2c7Z0J+/iz/A =Z/uG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
